What They Do to Prawns Is More Disgusting Than You Could Ever Have Imagined

A disgusting video has been released showing live prawns being injected with jelly to make them look more appetising in the supermarket.

The tiny animals are still alive when a thickening substance is injected into their heads and tails in order to give them a plumped-up appearance and increase their weight when they’re sold.

The footage comes from Vietnam – one of the world’s largest exporters of prawns, shipping hundreds of tonnes to the UK every year. Globally, it’s estimated that 99 per cent of prawns come from developing countries, where there are often few laws to protect animals, workers, and consumers.

This is just one more reason not to eat seafood. The prawn industry also causes massive damage to the environment, both because of destructive fishing practices that ruin the ecosystem of the oceans and because of the chemicals and waste products released into waterways by factory farms. As if that weren’t bad enough, shrimp processing has also been linked to human trafficking and slave labour.

Of course, choosing vegan alternatives to shrimp and other seafood is the right thing to do for animals, too!

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I have not eaten prawns since seeing a video of how they are bred in Indonesia – in small backwaters where the water is grey-black and full of raw sewage. But I am looking forward to trying meat-free prawns and meat-free fish fingers.

That was so well said I am so glad that I am not the only one who thinks like this! There is no standard any more and kindness and empathy for animals and each other are just some words found in the dictionary. SHAME,SHAME,SHAME

A lot of food is tampered with to increase profit, within the limits of what ever regs are in place. That’s the beauty of the Supermarket society we live in! And now they are lowering standards on organic
produce so they can cash in and wipe out the smaller producers who are doing it for the right reasons. OMG where will it all end?!

You guys must go to some farms where prawns are bred for the super high end market. I’ve seen on these farms that the large female prawns have an eye cut off, this causes the animals to go into shock and they start to produce eggs.

No they wouldn’t. A friend of mine knows full well about the amount of rubbish that is pumped into and over our food, and more importantly, about the pain and suffering that the animals go through, but simple doesn’t care. He says himself that he knows that makes him “a monster” but he doesn’t care.

People seem to have this airy-fairy idea that the human race is some naturally compassionate, kind and good species, and the reality is the opposite. We are greedy, selfish, inherently bad, and a virus on this planet. Put two people against each other in a life or death survival position and you will see exactly what we are capable of.

You are quite right Pete. The human race is not naturally compassionate and we all need to learn how to love. At any one time I understand that there are 90 wars going on in our beautiful world, and I believe the most important one is between those who love and care about animals and those who are totally indifferent! There needs to be a huge change in the hearts and mimes of so many people. The question is : how to achieve this??

Thank you for sharing this news – horrible as it is – because I haven’t bought or eaten prawns for many years, and will certainly never do so again. Or shrimp. I will also inform anyone else who will listen – people just don’t know about the terrible things which go on, like this.

Disgracefull, the human race seems to have more disregard by the week for living animals, what the hell is wrong with people?? All living creatures feel pain and stress. Are we now so obsessed with profit that anything is now allowed.
One thing I have learnt from life is that what goes around comes around! I hope these people like needles

I became vegetarian in 1984 and vegan in 1999: the best decisions of my life. I only regret that because doctors advised me wrongly I hesitated before becoming vegan (and I had almost no information at all, in those years, where I lived).
When humans interact with animals you are likely to see sooner or later monstrosities. (and sooner more than later).

Why is most of the cruellest things happening to animals in Asia? I know animal abuse goes on all over the world but it seems that we are always hearing terrible things from that part of the world. Anyone with a brain knows animals birds fish of any kind should not be treated this way. Animals feel pain just as we do please stop hurting them. Injecting shrimps to make them more attractive is ludicrous. Everything tested or done yo animals should be done to humans, we would soon stop being so cruel then!

Because it’s “over there”, easy to stoke up the casual racism you’ve just displayed. If you think about it, why would the media, who are controlled by the governments of that country to varying degrees, highlight the issues of animal cruelty in their own food production? Let’s take the USA as an example; they care about their economy. If the US media starts showing the US public about the cruelty that US food producers inflict on animals, then that public will stop “buying American”. Whereas, if its highlighted that its all happening in these poor little countries over there, then the buying public are more likely to buy food produced in the US, because we wouldn’t possibly be as barbaric as they are “over there”, we’re much more civilized, right? Thereby increasing production of US food, boosting the economy, and giving ourselves the illusion that we are better than other people.

Open your eyes and do some proper research, and look into the practices in your country, you will find just as much disgusting, cruelty right around your own corner. And can the casual racism.

I did not see racism another obsession. Just a comment, it is all over the world animal cruelty and human cruelty the world will die if we do not have respect for the environment all living creatures plants and each other.

Ryancommented onOctober 22, 2016 at 3:57 pm

Ultimate fault lies with food standard agencies for allowing this practice and its import, supermarket buyers, they should know better, and finally us as consumers who should know more about what we eat. But for many supermarket shoppers they sadly know the cost of everything and the value of nothing……..We should try and use our trade to foster good and sustainable business for the people and their environment in these developing countries and an outright boycott, as much I would agree, would serve neither…..I remember years ago seeing black lines of poo in prawns sold in shops…..these days are gone, I had wondered why….had something starved to death so I may not be offended….and now I have my answer, it is worse for the little critters than I could of possibly imagined…..To be honest I have avoided them wherever possible because I fear for Ocean life and the way it is treated……Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention and good luck in your campaign!

I’ve told friends time and again about the barbaric methods used in Thailand for shrimp and prawn farming, and my wife no longer buys from that source, purchasing Dublin bay prawns instead. The problem is that so few take notice. I’ll try this article to prove it instead.

For the past ‘n’ number of years, greed and evil have become the ‘norm’ for so much of the human race and I can only see it getting much, much worse. For goodness sake why can we not just leave animals alone.

ACTION is definitely required to stop bad practice and tampering with food pf all kinds, but especially animals and even more so with live animals, for profit or gain.
I do not think going vegan is an option. If other meat-eating life forms can be convinced not to eat meat. then I will consider it as an option. God gave me a digestive system which provides for eating both meat and vegetation. I will always believe that God knows best.
If anyone wishes to reply to comment, please do not bother yourselves. I will not be reading it.

It appears that NO “food” is “tamper-free”. As long as the money-mongers continue to “grab” as much money as they can for EVERY single cell of a living animal, they won’t try to “improve” it or make it appear much more “appealing” or bigger.

Apparently these money-mongers are either unaware there is an obesity problem planet-wide, or they are simply apathetic to everything and everyone, excluding the gold that goes into their pockets.

It’s cruel & completely wrong the lengths some countries will go to for gain & profit. Every animal no matter how big or small should be treated as humanely as we would wish to treated ourselves. All cruelty must be stopped for the good of mankind & our planet.

I have never eaten a prawn in my life. This is disgusting, why can’t human beings treat all life with respect?
It seems there’s little hope left for our beautiful planet, when I look at how things are ‘progressing’
Too many cruel and greedy humans.

How low can we stoop in the cruelty & exploitation of animals. I am not surprised. The Vietnamese & other Far East countries have never cared how badly they treat animals, fish etc or how much they pollute the land & seas & God gave man dominion over all that to do with as he wished!!

I stopped eating prawns when a TV programme pointed out that a prawns eye was cut off to stimulate reproduction. Prawns feel pain and the sight of those miserable depressed prawns has put me off eating them for life.

Prawns/shrimps etc are something I have never eaten in my life ++ Just not my thing ++ But why they are doing this painful and disgusting thing to them whilst they are alive, I cannot understand ++ Maybe their whole intention is just to cause torture and pain where ever possible.

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